[OPINION] - My prediction of the future of AI and it's impact on general society - Lemmy.zip
I am an IT guy in my late 30s, I have no deep insight into AI, I am just a guy
with general technical knowledge and who enjoy philosophy. It is by no means
anything but my own personal thoughts and reflections on AI and it’s impact on
general society. I write this from a Scandinavian perspective, I am a Swede
after all. ----- 1. AI is here to stay, once the concept proved viable, there
was no way to put the genie back in the lamp. 2. AI will move from how it is
being pushed right now, as a productivity booster, to a knowledge booster. 3.
The general reasoning skills of the general public will take a sharp nosedive.
4. The value of actual human intellectual work will at first decline, but as AI
becomes more common, the value will increase as AI capabilities stagnates and
becomes generic. 5. AI capabilities will stagnate, as more and more data is
shoved into the models, the responses will become more and more generic, the
more data you have, the less any piece of new data matters. 6. AI companies is
getting ready for the squeeze, give it a few years, once AI dependence has set
in, AI companies will start raising their prices, putting the squeeze on their
customers, and if your entire workföow depends on a specific AI, you are shit
out of luck. ------- What are my general opinion of AI these days? I think it is
an excellent reference engine for coding, which should only be used if you
understand the general language you are coding in. I sometimes work in web
design, and asking AI to tell me a specific method to set a specific parameter
just as I would have searched for it earlier is great, anything beyond that is
highly dangerous, you risk loosing track of the code. ------ Looking at how
other’s use AI scares me, especially when it comes to companies and government
work. They just shove classified data straight into free AI models with zero
insight on how it is being used beyond the task at hand. They take answers at
face value, without any skepticism or verifying the data. People seem to forget
about reasoning and logic when it comes to AI. ------ TL;DR: AI is a good at
some tasks, but dangerous as hell in others.
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